Geriatric assessment tools
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A 22-page pre-visit questionnaire helps you gather extensive family and social histories for elderly patients.
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Use the follow-up form to help focus visits with established elderly patients.
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This document provides a flow chart for visits to screen patients for common geriatric problems, as well as a basic screening questionnaire. It also includes a form to guide you through assessments for mobility problems and falls.
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The incontinence visit form will guide you through the process of assessing the severity, type and root cause of incontinence, as well as determining treatment and follow up.
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Use the incontinence follow-up form to prepare incontinent patients for subsequent office visits.
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"Community resources for falls" provides a model format your practice can follow to create a list of resources for elderly patients specific to your area.
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